> Then they don’t sell them because they know other people will want them in the future.

This artificially inflating demand for the item, with a very long delay or even obfuscated feedback.

I agree that the value store is a (the only) viable use case for BTC. Although commodities in general check the same boxes without the awkwardness of Bitcoin.

BTW when you say "better money" you mean for this specific use case right? Obviously BTC and cryptocurrency in general are not as good as regular money in general.